Re: Porting GNOME to Wayland

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org> wrote:

> I'm asking this out of my own curiosity... what kind of porting work
> would be required for an 'application' to be ported to wayland ?
>
> Shouldn't that be transparent for most applications by virtue
> of linking against the new default wayland GDK backend ?
>
> i.e. usage of the gtk+-3.0.pc would imply wayland anyway
> in the bright future where GTK+ is installed on a wayland
> capable system, right ?
>
> Will applications need to update configure.ac to specify
> a specific GDK backend ? (for systems which might
> offer both GTK+ backends, x11 and wayland ?)
>
> And... basically I suppose we're mostly talking about applications
> which explicitly #include <gdk/gdkx.h> that might need any
> porting, if any applications do need porting ?

Emmanuele answered all of this already, but just to give an
impression, https://live.gnome.org/Wayland/Applications shows how the
applications in the gnome modulesets are doing on Wayland, currently.